“Yes, finally ― the group that counts among its current members Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby and Mel Gibson has found the one guy who treated women badly and kicked him out,” Oliver said.

Meanwhile, Kate Winslet, who won a Best Actress Oscar in 2009 for The Reader, has revealed that she did not thank Harvey Weinstein deliberately in her acceptance speech, despite showing gratitude to 19 others by name.

"He was bullying and nasty, very hard to deal with," she told the L.A. Times. "The fact that I’m never going to have to deal with Harvey Weinstein again is the best thing that ever happened.”